Flight Plan: The Blue Angels...Devils or Saints? by Lowandslow | In this morning's email inbox I found an amazing HD video a friend sent of a US Navy Blue Angels routine from the pilot's perspective. It's really spectacular, and you can see it here if you're interested in that sort of thing...

Golden Knights Practicing in New Providence - Patch.com | If this past Sunday the residents of New Providence heard music coming from Warner field, it was because the Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps choose New Providence to practice. A few members of the corps are residents...

Doolittle Raiders, Tuskegee Airmen honored at Oshkosh from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Veterans from two legendary World War II military units are among the honored guests this year during the "Salute to the Greatest Generation in the Air" at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on July 23-29 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin...

NASA Returns to AirVenture in 2012 from News from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh | NASA returns to EAA AirVenture in 2012 with several current space exploration projects, giving fly-in attendees a unique taste of this ever-changing field of aviation.

E-Volo, Electric Long-EZ To Visit AirVenture from AVwebFlash Current Issue | AirVenture at Oshkosh is coming up fast, less than two weeks away, and in recent days EAA has announced more details about what visitors can expect to see at the show. One aircraft sure to attract attention is the one-of-a-kind e-volo 18-rotor multicopter, which will be on display at the Innovation Hangar. The multicopter, built in Germany, is the successor to the 16-motor VC1 that achieved the first manned flight by an electric-powered VTOL aircraft last October. Another unusual aircraft coming to the Innovation...

Air Force ambassadors - This is Hull and East Riding | SURYA Kiran or the "Sun Rays" are the aerobatics demonstration team of the Indian Air Force.The Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (Skat) was formed in 1996 to serve as the ambassadors and to...

Up, up and away! - Red Bank Hub | Other options are the Greenwood Lake Air Show in West Milford, Aug. 18-19 (www.greenwoodlakeairshow.com); AirFest at NavalAir Station Wildwood Aviation Museum at Cape May Airport, Aug. 29-31 (www.usnasw.org); Open Cockpit Days at the Aviation ...Do you wanna know if a Cold War era B-52H approaching you at low level is still a scary sight? Watch this photo. from David Cenciotti's weblog | The following picture was taken by The Aviationist’s photographer Giovanni Maduli during the opening flyover of the Day 2 of the Farnborough International Airshow 2012. The B-52H, using callsign “Scalp 99″, performed the flypast and then joined up with a KC-135 for air-to-air refueling before heading towards the U.S....

Wreckage From 1952 Crash Found In Alaska from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Aircraft wreckage that was discovered on a glacier last month by an Alaskan Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crew on a routine training mission has been identified as an Air Force Douglas C-124A Globemaster II. The airplane crashed in November 1952, killing all 52 people on board. "The plane hit the mountainside, exploding and disintegrating upon impact," according to an Anchorage Daily News story at the time. "Six to eight feet of powdered snow covered everything." Military teams investigated the...

Walking around the Caribou — a de Havilland C-7 from Travel for Aircraft by joseph_may | Walking around the Caribou — a de Havilland C-7 35º 07′ 49″ N / 79º 01′ 19″ W De Havilland Canada had two successes with STOL aircraft so the firm evolved a more capable aircraft, in 1958, known as the Caribou or formerly as the DHC-4. The U.S. Army foresaw conflicts in ‘limited wars” on the horizon with the eventual [...]

July 10, 2012 The Great Northwest part 3 from Ely Air Lines by Linda Street-Ely | Mike: Seven one-hundredths of a mile an hour is a painfully small speed by which to be bested. Our pit crew and cheering squad (Linda’s sister Diane and her beau Willie) were tops, but the local Washingtonian whose airplane weighed 400 pounds less and with lots of speed modifications (some of which we have yet to acquire) flew a good race. While pals couldn’t console her, Linda channeled her frustration into "fix-it" mode. We knew the "Grumman Guru" responsible for giving that airplane its potential. Ken Blackmon lives just outside Seattle, only an hour’s flight from the race in Ephrata. Determination had a plan: speed doctor, Monday morning...

Aviation artist Sam Lyons hospitalized from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | Facebook was the first indication something was amiss, then a call from Mindy Lyons, wife of famed aviation artist Sam Lyons, confirmed the news. Sam is at the Lakeland Regional Medical Center with what doctors think is an allergic reaction to blood pressure medication. As a result of the reaction, Sam's throat and tongue are badly swollen, so much so that Sam is now (as of July 10) on a respirator in the ICU....

Power of Community from Flight To Success by Karlene Petitt | ...I remember the days when pilots attended initial ground school together. We would learn from each other during discussions with our manuals as reference material. We had a real person standing in front of us, who knew the plane better than anyone. Twice a year we would return to the schoolhouse and share stories of what happened on the line. Hangar Flying. We’d listen to executives as they dropped in as guest speakers and we became connected with the breath of the organization. We would...